T A B . L I X .
COLUMBA ROSEA.
For the Generic CharaBers of Columba fee TAB. XVI.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Columba rofeo-fanguinea, cera aurantia, vertice orbitis apicibufque tearicum minorum albis,
remigibus caudaque fiifcis.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Sanguine rofe-colourecl Pigeon, with orange cere; crown, orbits, and tips of the fmaller coverts
white; wing-feathers and tall brown.
T H I S beautiful bird, which is a native of India, is about the fize of a fmall dove-houfe pigeon.
Its general hue is a rich fanguine rofe-colour; the abdomen and uropygium paler than the
other parts. The tail and wing-feathers are deep-brown; the bill and legs yellow-brown; the
orbit-mark, or part in which the eye is placed, is white, imbedded on the fore-part with black,
which colour runs juft over the cere, fo as to form a kind of black eapiftrum or band in front;
the irides are yellow. This fpecies does not appear to have been before defcribed.
